Chapter 2, Item 50a
Parts of rings
Now the Terms to the several parts of the Ring are these.
The Shanke, is the Ring part.
Peirced Ring, is such as are hollow and engraven.
Branched Ring, is those that are engraven with Flowers, Leaves, and such like.
Enammeled Ring, is wrought on the Gold with diverse colours and annailed, or burnt in.
The Collet is the Socket in which the Stone is set.
The Scallops, or Muscles, of the Collet, are the works on the side of it, like those shells.
The Graining of the Collet, are little heads of Gold or enammel set at the Foot of the Scallops.
The Foil, is a certain coloured Tin Foil set under the Stone in the Collet, to give it a colour answerable to itself.
The Bessel, is the top of the Collet, which being beaten to the Stone, holds it in.
The Cressants, are the half rounds which the Bessel is cut into.
The Traps, are the squaure cuts at the bottom of the Stone, from whence the contrary lusters and sparks do proceed.
The Threeds of the Stone, or Traps, are the edges between each square of the Stone.
The Foslet stone or Rose stone, is cut into many squares ending in the Center, as lib.2. chap.2. numb.47.
The Table stone, is flat on the top, whether square or losenwise, ibid. numb.46.
The Pointed stone, is such as rise out of the Collet, either round on the top, or sharp pointed, as these do.
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